Omena Cut Flowers U-Pick Flower Farm

Omena Cut Flowers U-Pick Flower Farm Open daily dawn til dark May-Oct. Located 7 miles North of Suttons Bay on M-22 in Leelanau County, MI
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😄It’s hydrangea time! I grow the prolific Incrediball cream and rose, Endless Summer, Limelight, and a couple of others...
07/10/2025

😄It’s hydrangea time! I grow the prolific Incrediball cream and rose, Endless Summer, Limelight, and a couple of others that I’m not sure of the name.

🌸Hydrangeas are so important to our bouquet work, great for upicking and are beautiful dried. I also use them on my dried flower pumpkins come September.

✅Tips on harvesting: it’s best to harvest hydrangeas when they’re fully open. Put them into water right away. Then dip each stem into the spice Alum which helps the stems to take up water. Look for a jar of Alum under the Upick structure and feel free to use it. Some people pound their stems, which also helps them to take up water.

Baby Darby and toddler Archie picking up Mom Kendal’s subscription flowers over the last couple of weeks. Kendal has bee...
07/10/2025

Baby Darby and toddler Archie picking up Mom Kendal’s subscription flowers over the last couple of weeks.

Kendal has been a subscriber for the last several years (thanks to a gift from her Mom) and we also did her and Tyler’s wedding years ago.

Love the flower family history and continuity here! And such cute kids too!

🌺Theresa and David are from Northville, MI but spend time at the Homestead. When in Leelanau, they told me that they al...
07/08/2025

🌺Theresa and David are from Northville, MI but spend time at the Homestead. When in Leelanau, they told me that they always drive from Glen Arbor to Omena for a bouquet to-go from our cooler.

🌸”Because they’re so fresh and last so long,” Theresa said. “Some of the flowers last 2 weeks!”

🌺I’m always so happy to hear that. 2025 is the 29th summer for OCF and from the beginning, I researched flowers that are good for cutting and that have a long vase life. Some stunners like peonies and dahlias don’t last quite as long, but few blooms top their beauty.

🌸Suffice it to say that I don’t grow anything that won’t last at least a week in the vase.

🪣I think the fact that we harvest flowers at the super fresh, “just-opening” stage, and they go from the field and into the cooler is key to their long life.

🌞🍅They don’t sit out in the heat or next to produce that produces ethylene gas, which hastens the demise of flowers.

💧Our harvesting buckets are bleached after each use, and filled with a hydrating solution and flower food that the stems take up water after cutting.

💐Sarah was here yesterday and made some really cute little bouquets and we have lots of mason jars on hand too. If you don’t have time to cut, we’ve got you covered.

Lately I’ve been calling Dave our family’s “unsung hero.” While I am the happy recipient of compliments on the garden, h...
07/03/2025

Lately I’ve been calling Dave our family’s “unsung hero.” While I am the happy recipient of compliments on the garden, he is the one behind the scenes that makes it all look so good. From mowing, rototiling, hauling away buckets of weeds and making sure that the irrigation works, I can count on him to do all of the heavy work. In addition, he delivers my bouquets and does the books for OCF.

Sam and Shannon’s wedding added an extra layer of maintenance around this house, which in a normal year is challenging enough. While I gardened and harvested flowers for the wedding, he washed windows, changed sheets, and cleaned house for our house guests. He hauled beer and wine and ran errands for everything from makeup brushes for the bride to wedding day pastries for the bridal party. The list of what he does for those he loves is long. We are all lucky to call him husband, father and friend. Happy Birthday Dave. 🎂🎂🎂🥧 (He loves pie over cake).

“Thank you!! Beautiful bouquets as always! Will make a lovely “thank you” to the neurologist and rehab team who saved my...
07/02/2025

“Thank you!! Beautiful bouquets as always! Will make a lovely “thank you” to the neurologist and rehab team who saved my spine and mobility after a terrible car accident. Looking forward to being able to pick flowers again one day once I am 100%.”—H.R.

I received this message via a Venmo payment yesterday. I was flying around like a chicken with my head cut off and had a quick conversation with a woman at the cooler. I noticed she was wearing a black brace around her torso and she mentioned that she was getting flowers to take to her doctor’s office.

I was pulled away by something I now can’t recall. So I was grateful to read this note on her Venmo payment this morning. Love the stories and emotions behind flower picking and bouquet purchases. Thank you, H.R.

🌸We’ve got everything from $5 mini peony bud vases (cute!) to mason jars to peony or mixed bouquet sleeves. Something fo...
06/29/2025

🌸We’ve got everything from $5 mini peony bud vases (cute!) to mason jars to peony or mixed bouquet sleeves. Something for every flower lover out there.

☔️⛈️We had a huge thunderstorm this morning and now the sun is coming out. It’s a beautiful day and the garden is exploding with flowers.

📸A few garden shots of the sky just before the storm and what’s in bloom, including lilies that came from my mom. Can’t stop thinking about how much she would have loved Sam and Shannon’s wedding and all the activity in the past week. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

🌸Yes we still have peony bunches in the cooler! Thanks to the miracle of “holding Peonies“ I’ve got boxes full of them i...
06/28/2025

🌸Yes we still have peony bunches in the cooler! Thanks to the miracle of “holding Peonies“ I’ve got boxes full of them in my cooler in the “marshmallow stage“.

🌺In case you don’t know about this miracle, you harvest Peonies in the marshmallow stage, lay them between layers of newspaper in a cardboard box and store in the refrigerator, or in my case, the cooler.. Pull them out up to six weeks later, give them a fresh cut and they open up beautifully.

🌸They are $33 for 9-stem bunch. Get these beauties while they last.

Dan and his wife, Beth, have been one of my weekly subscribers for a number of years. Grateful to them and 40 others who...
06/28/2025

Dan and his wife, Beth, have been one of my weekly subscribers for a number of years. Grateful to them and 40 others who support our work. Subscribers help me to have a predictable income, steady work for my employees and most importantly, to make sure the flowers that I grow find a loving home. Thank you, subscribers.

We are at our maximum at the moment but will have openings around August 1st - September, when dahlias and Lisianthus are the stars of the show. 2 sizes to choose from; Dan is holding the Large bouquet. More info here:

https://www.omenacutflowers.com/shop?store-page=4-Week-Subscription-Value-Bouquet-SOLD-OUT-TIL-AUGUST-$35-per-week-p66400429

Sweet William … just .50 cents a stem and gorgeous right now. Come pick some!
06/26/2025

Sweet William … just .50 cents a stem and gorgeous right now. Come pick some!

Part of my evening harvest. Canterbury bells and lavender Veronica. Don’t they look nice together?
06/26/2025

Part of my evening harvest. Canterbury bells and lavender Veronica. Don’t they look nice together?

Every picture tells a story. I’ve been growing these early orange lilies for years. They are so bright and cheery. Great...
06/25/2025

Every picture tells a story. I’ve been growing these early orange lilies for years. They are so bright and cheery. Great value at $5 a pot.

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12401 E Freeland Road
Suttons Bay, MI
49682

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(231) 883-8327

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